David Holzgraefe, swine nutritionist and owner of Holzgraefe Innovative Services, LLC, will moderate the upcoming Iowa Swine Day Pre-conference Symposium titled: Soybean Meal 360: Expanding our horizons through discoveries and field-proven feeding strategies for improving pork production. The new half-day symposium will be held July 24, from 1 to 5 p.m. CDT at the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa.

“The Swine Day Pre-conference Symposium provides a 360º perspective of soybean meal use for the pork industry to understand and apply the breadth of soybean meal’s amino acids, energy and complementary nutrition factors into wise, effective feeding strategies and enables the foundation for the next generation of new discoveries,” said Holzgraefe.

Eight leading swine industry experts will cover a range of interrelated soy topics including:

The program will wrap up with all speakers joining a robust question and answer panel discussion moderated by Dean Boyd, with Animal Nutrition Research, LLC.

“It is a pleasure to be involved in the Iowa Swine Day Pre-conference Symposium. This important event brings research to light that exposes the remarkable health and growth-promoting aspects of soybean meal,” said Boyd. “I spent 20 years of my career helping to enlarge the amino acid library to reduce diet cost, only to learn that extreme soybean meal displacement with these and competing proteins harms summer carcass weight and impairs growth during winter months. This symposium brings the complete story to light – from processing to practical, profitable solutions.”

Nutritionists, veterinarians, producers and academia will benefit immensely from the information exchange. Other members of the soybean meal value chain are also invited to attend.

Click here to learn more and register for the symposium.